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...high government officials in a mysterious Masonic lodge. So far, Spadolini seems to be faring reasonably well In a recent poll, 62% of those interviewed approved of the way he is handling his job, a high figure in a notoriously cynical electorate. But the jovial Prime Minister has a handicap. A member of the small center Republican Party, he is the first non-Christian Democrat to head a government in 36 years. Even a small crisis could bring down his fragile five-party coalition government and send Spadolini through those swinging doors...
...handicap ourselves when we don't give the players a chance to have spring practice. Why should football be enclosed in a period of three months in the fall. In the spring, it is a great opportunity to practice crucial parts of the game without being injury conscience," Peabody says. "If we had the chance to practice in the spring, we would be able to beat competition outside the Ivy League. You should compete because that is one of the great things of sports. You shouldn't do anything half-heartedly...
Despite the handicap, the depleted corps from Harvard had little trouble with the Elis. Bolstered by the appearance of the rest of the team--including starting goalie Rich Reid--after the first period, the Crimson swam past Yale...
...system's defenders, the average juror's lack of expertise is not a handicap but a positive value, for the jurors are supposed to represent the community's sense of right and wrong. "Our civilisation has decided, and very justly decided, that determining the guilt or innocence of men is a thing too important to be trusted to trained men . . . G.K." Chesterton wrote. "It asks men who know no more law than I know, but who can feel the things that I felt in the jury...
Mobil, on the other hand, set limits on its offer. Although it raised its bid from $90 to $105, and finally last week to $115 and $120 per share, Mobil's proposal was conditional on its obtaining 51% of Conoco's shares. Mobil also had a severe handicap because it was never able to shake the fear that the Justice Department would block the merger of two oil companies on antitrust grounds...